Ala’a Ibrahim

I found this while looking to one of the local weekly ad newspapers, and I’m just wondering, is this legal in Jordan?

Economy is going Bad

I got this picture from a friend, it’s so cute, I know the economy is going bad, but I think that the cat exaggerated

“In the year 3000, YouTube,Twitter & FB will merge to form 1 super time wasting website called “YouTwitFace”
Conan O’Brian”

The cute thing is that Youtwitface.com already exists.
Lucky guys.

I’m using an IPv6 tunnel using http://go6.net/, and when the internet connection goes down and up after a while, the tunnel just doesn’t refresh it self.
I run it on crontab for every 5 minutes for now
My Machine is Gentoo 2008, I guess you need to do some changes for it to work on your distro.
Hope that any one will benefit from it

Update:
This script is available at github on http://github.com/alaaibrahim/ala-scripts/.

When you do something wrong, use this form to apologize

Formal Apology

The IT Crowd is one of my favorite shows, it became like an addiction to me, I can never get enough of it.
This is episode 1 from the first season, you can watch it, it’s on google-video.

Now, it seams that the “Are you from the past?” thing, is faced a lot in the IT world, it’s like either we are from another planet, or we live in a world, where idiots are main population occupying it.
We speak in simple matters, like turn on your computer, but people find it hard to understand.

People refuse to think for a second of what the error message told them, or worse, they refuse to read the error message, but they have an amazing skill of attracting viruses, worms and Trojans. It’s really amazing.

And do you know what the problem is? a lot of these people work in the IT industry, and other people might know them as Computer Experts.

Now the issue is always, how to communicate with them, of course telling them that they are stupid, is rude. But guess what is also rude, telling them to try to learn, or use google, or read the G** D*** F***** Message.
And believe me, they would never learn.

So what do you think? Anybody has any ideas?

This post just a reminder for me, as every time I need it, I look through the manual for options, to send a file through FTP using the command curl

I just keep forgetting it, hope it would help someone else

1. Take out your laptop from the bag;
2. Open it slowly and calmly;
3. Turn it on;
4. Make sure that the moron next to you is looking at your screen;
5. Access to the internet;
6. Close your eyes and raise your head towards the sky;
7. Take a deep breath and click on this link: http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf
8. Watch carefully the expression on the moron’s face!

A friend today has sent me this file, it’s so amazing, you should use headphones to really enjoy it

The file has been removed from the site, as it appears that some people were abusing it. If you still want the file, please contact me using the contact us form, and I will be more than happy to send it to you.

Today I received this weird email:

الســــلام عليكــــــم ورحمــة الله وبركاتــه ….
تحيــة طيبــة وبعــد:
أختي الكريمة ابعث إليك هده الرسالة المتواضعة راجيا من المولى أن تصلك وأنتي
في أحسن حال وتمنيت أن أتعرف عليك وان يكون بيننا كل ود ومحبه وأجمل ما في
الدنيا الصداقة الحقيقية النابعـة من القلــب تكون مليئة بالصــدق والإخلاص ومحبــة
الخير لكل الناس… أنا لا أريد أن أطيــل عليك بالكلام وإنشاء الله بكــون الكلام بعــد
ردك على هذه الرسالة المتواضعـة وأتمنـى أن تبعتي الرد قريبـا وأنا على استعــداد
للإجابة على أي أسئلة ترغبين بمعرفتها وأنا بانتظارك,,,,,
وأتمنى أن تردي على رسالتي المتواضعة بالموافقة أو الرفض دون أي إحراج وأنا
اقدر قرارك بدون أي نوع من الحساسية ولكن أتمنى بموافقتك على الصداقة الجميلة
التي تدوم للأبد إنشاء الله …وأحلى باقة ورد لأحلى عيون تقرأ هذه الرســـــــــــالــة
المتــواضعــة،،،،
وأخيرا تمنياتي لك بالتوفيق والحياة السعيدة……
ملاحــــظة : إذا فعلا وافقتي على الصداقة التي ستجمعنا أتمنى أن تضيفي
هذا الايمل عندك الايمل اللي بكون متواجد عليه دائما وهو:

xxxxx@hotmail.com
والياهو:
xxxxx@yahoo.com

مع خالـــــص احترامـــي
الصـــد يـــــــــــــــــــق

من المؤلم … أن تحب بصدق …وتخلص بصدق …وتغفر بصدق ثم تصدم بنهاية تخذل كل الصدق الذي قدمته ومن العذاب …أن تكتب لمن لا يقرا لك ..وأن تنتظر من لا يأتي لك … وأن تحب من لا يشعر بك …وأن تحتاج من لا يحتاج إليك ..
“ثم تكتشف أن أجمل العمر كان سرابا”

Ok, after you have read this stuff, I have a couple of questions, the first one, does it really work, like is there any girl that would reply to such email, from someone, this is the first time to send an email. Did anybody ever done that and got to meet the girl, or did any girl received such an email and replied, and they meet in the end?

I don’t know where did he get my email, and how did he get the idea that I’m a girl. but it it’s really weird, you know if it was some IM or something like it, well maybe, but through email ????!!!!!

Also, does usual guys do that, as sometimes I feel that I’m an alien from outer space, who came to earth, and he is trying to understand human nature.

What do you think?